Acute appendicitis - inflammation of the appendix cecum.
CLASSIFICATION
Depending on the variant of the disease is isolated appendicitis:
simple
destructive,
complicated.
CLINICAL PICTURE
CLINICAL PICTURE
Attack of appendicitis usually develops suddenly, there is acute pain, initially localizes in the epigastric region or around the navel. After a while the pain is localized in the right iliac region and is growing. Against the background of the pain may develop indigestion, nausea, diarrhea is a single, low-grade fever, false urge to urinate in men. When a destructive acute appendicitis develops the classic symptom of acute abdomen, whose appearance indicates the development of acute, sharply worsens the prognosis of the disease. For the elderly is characterized by blurred over, low-intensity pain.
